Finally switched

by **Slaughter2** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 2:04 am

after 15 plus years using IE, I finally switched to Firefox..................wow I'm truly amazed how great this explorer is to use, any good add on guys???

by **gowhitesox99** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:58 pm

i went to IE7, thinking of going back to 6... 7 blows.

by **Buliwyf** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:47 pm

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by **Slaughter2** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:14 am

Originally posted by gowhitesox99
i went to IE7, thinking of going back to 6... 7 blows.

thats the whole reason I came to firefox, its the same feel anywoo, and less likely to get viruses

by **cartboy519** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:23 am

I use netscape, i made the difficult switch from IE about 2 or 3 years ago. Yeah i am sure firefox is similar, and not using IE i get so much less spyware and crap on my PC.

by **Sabres** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:14 pm

I'm still using IE 6 and I love it. I have Firefox, I used it for about a week but never really liked it. So I went back to IE 6. maybe I should give Firefox another chance.

by **Padre** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:02 pm

I was using Firefox 2.0 but it stopped functioning correctly. I can't save images or files from websites. When I right-click and choose "save image" the dialog comes up, allows me to rename the file, choose a path and all that good stuff, but then the image isn't in the place I told it to save (or anywhere for that matter). With how often I need to nab pics from sites this is very unfortunate, because I really like Firefox. I might have to nuke the system to get rid of it completely - I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it but it held on to some info so it wasn't a clean removal.

As for plug-ins for Firefox... I had a cool thumbnail viewer, download manager, configurable auto-refresh (great for bid sniping on eBay) and image zoom. I nabbed a couple search engines - including a few for a Star Wars club I'm in that allow me to look up people on the roster without going through the site's interface. I can plug in their name or user ID and get their info page without having to go to the site, then choose "roster" and "search", which is very handy. I also have some sort of 3D-apps user thing... it allows me to search through databases for models, textures and tutorials.

MS forced me into IE7 (it came up as a critical update!) and since I can't save images from sites I fire up in FF I switch back to IE7 when I need it.

by **Namloot** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:13 pm

[quote]Originally posted by Padre
[B]I was using Firefox 2.0 but it stopped functioning correctly. I can't save images or files from websites. When I right-click and choose "save image" the dialog comes up, allows me to rename the file, choose a path and all that good stuff, but then the image isn't in the place I told it to save (or anywhere for that matter). With how often I need to nab pics from sites this is very unfortunate, because I really like Firefox. I might have to nuke the system to get rid of it completely - I tried to uninstall it and reinstall it but it held on to some info so it wasn't a clean removal.

I'm using v1.5.0.8, it works fine. I will wait a bit for v2.x.

by **Slaughter2** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:38 pm

using 2.0 now seems to work great soooo far, man I really love it

by **Ldsmith104** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 12:54 am

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